Wonderful discussion of one of Coltrane's unforgettable compositions! Haunting! In a somewhat similar direction, I absolutely love his composition "Tunji."
Just give my two cents. I believe it was in Lewis porters book it said that for 6 months Coltrane practiced the key of eb min. Probably because it requires a funny combination of lots of fingers and few fingers. Now equinox is in the key of Csharp min. But for a tenor sax it transposes Up a whole step C# ….D… Eb I would say it’s really in Eb min because that’s what Trane on the bb tenor sax was likely thinking. The key Eb minor(the harmonic equivalent of C# minor) is one where he really meditated and shedded.
Also… sorry but I sent something wrong a couple days ago. Not Aidan’s book…. It was Sam Reese’s book about the blue feeling. “Blue notes”. My bad.
Wonderful discussion of one of Coltrane's unforgettable compositions! Haunting! In a somewhat similar direction, I absolutely love his composition "Tunji."
Me, too.
The regularity of those gong/chords is deeply reassuring. It gives the musician the security to play adventurously.
Just give my two cents. I believe it was in Lewis porters book it said that for 6 months Coltrane practiced the key of eb min. Probably because it requires a funny combination of lots of fingers and few fingers. Now equinox is in the key of Csharp min. But for a tenor sax it transposes Up a whole step C# ….D… Eb I would say it’s really in Eb min because that’s what Trane on the bb tenor sax was likely thinking. The key Eb minor(the harmonic equivalent of C# minor) is one where he really meditated and shedded.
Also… sorry but I sent something wrong a couple days ago. Not Aidan’s book…. It was Sam Reese’s book about the blue feeling. “Blue notes”. My bad.
Anyway Bret thanks again for enlightenment.